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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Scaling Up - And Plein Air Live



Scaling up a small painting presents many creative problems, but a more mechanical one has to do with drawing the transfer grids.  How many of us have struggled with the math?  

For example, let's say you have a sketch that is 7 inches wide, an odd number, but you want the larger painting to be 24 inches, an even number.  It'd be helpful if that sketch were 8 inches wide, wouldn't it?  On the sketch, you could simply draw a grid with 1-inch-wide columns and then, on the larger surface, a grid with 3-inch-wide columns, resulting in each having 8 columns of the same width.  But 7 inches!  You would need to divide the sketch into 7/8-inch columns.  This gets messy, fast.

Well, there's an easier way, no matter the dimensions.  Here's a short video that explains (https://youtu.be/A_OI9Sk4C9g)


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